Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I volunteered for the Grenadier Guards , well I had to go to Chelsea Barracks and after a week there , they decided that I was n't medically fit for them , although the doctor or the M O at the Ipswich Recruiting Officer said , oh yes , you 're A one you 'll be fine for the guard but cos I was fairly well built , stature wise . |
| 2 | Initially the road winds through woodlands of birch and alder and hazel and oak uncharacteristic of the harsh Sutherland terrain and alongside a dancing beck ; it then crosses an open moor between the buttresses of Quinag and the waters of Loch Cairnbawn . |
| 3 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 4 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 5 | Not just as squeaky clean , boring Ewan Famber but as a man . |
| 6 | By early June the failure of an inquiry by Sir Edward Clark and of a group of ministers headed by Lloyd George to persuade the employers to agree to recognise the Federation and to negotiate with it on a joint board , began to bring nearer the prospect that the Transport Workers ' Federation National Executive would implement a recommendation by its Annual Conference that unless the joint board proposal was accepted a national strike would be declared . |
| 7 | He decided to take a salaried job in a posh West End gallery and within a year had landed the directorship of the Marlborough Gallery 's contemporary art venture , the New London Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 8 | I have to admit I 'm not as eager to give money or pictures , say , to a Carnegie Museum as to a Museum of Modern Art , and I 'd rather give to the Museum of Modern Art than the Guggenheim Museum . |
| 9 | Only the Royal Scot remained as a viable Euston-Glasgow train but with a schedule fifteen minutes slower than the five-hour norm established in the 1974 timetable . |
| 10 | Opals occur in several parts of North America but as a rule these are only of common , non-precious character . |
| 11 | But she also had to keep house for Aunt Bessie and for a lodger she had to take in to make ends meet . |
| 12 | He was apprenticed in 1718 to a Danish sculptor-stuccoist , J. C. Sturmberg , and assisted his master at Fredensborg Castle and with a monument in Roskilde Cathedral . |
| 13 | On Feb. 20 the assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) accepted the resignation of Guy Deluz as ICRC Director-General and as a member of the ICRC 's executive board . |
| 14 | They 've yanked that big juicy $422m CAD 2 contract to supply the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command away from Intergraph Corp because of a protest lodged by competitors Centel , Sun and Autodesk . |
| 15 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 16 | It had provided that the deal could be varied in writing only and had to be signed by Mr Gillespie and by a director of the purchasing company acting with the authorisation of its board . |
| 17 | Like Herbert , however , he suffered from ‘ aguish distempers ’ ; his doctor advised that the only chance of saving his life was for him to travel overseas in order to escape from the Cambridge climate and as a respite from his studies . |
| 18 | Mr Hurd , Foreign Secretary , dismissed claims by Mr Ashdown that in a pact or coalition he would be able to prevent Labour introducing its proposed higher tax rates on middle managers . |
| 19 | They wo n't pay a young act any money , but they will let them play third on the bill on a Monday night or on a Thursday night when there are n't many people in the venue . |
| 20 | The seat was given to the school for a Mr headmaster and as a gesture of goodwill to all who pass the school . |
| 21 | He also built several handsome examples in masonry ; and , most important , at the Ouseburn and Willington Dene bridges ( 1836–9 , demolished ) on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway and in a number of subsequent examples he successfully employed a system of laminated timber arches , which , for a short time , was widely imitated in railway-bridge construction . |
| 22 | On Feb. 23 the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen had met with opposition representatives and President Déby while on a visit to N'Djamena , and had expressed continued US support for the " democratic process in Chad " . |
| 23 | This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily . |
| 24 | In recent weeks , I have had the opportunity of discussing the matter not only in the United States but with a number of colleagues in the European Community . |
| 25 | Reza Khan had promised Ironside that he would not depose Ahmad Shah and for a time he did not . |
| 26 | St Helens prop Kevin Ward is struggling to be fit for Sunday 's Regal Trophy first round tie against Leeds at Knowsley Road because of a neck injury , but New Zealander George Mann could return to the pack after a being out for a month with back trouble . |
| 27 | Trainer Henry Cecil said : ‘ Tenby developed mild colic on Sunday night and as a precaution was treated for it . |
| 28 | The provisions of s739 ( and s740 ) apply to situations where there is a transfer to a UK company which thereafter becomes resident outside the United Kingdom or to a UK trust which thereafter becomes resident outside the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | proceedings have been or are to be commenced in a Contracting State other than the United Kingdom or in a part of the United Kingdom other than that in which the High Court in question exercises jurisdiction ; and |
| 30 | PETER Minnis will miss the Carlsberg Ulster championships because of a recurrence of a long-standing injury — but the inter pro star is quite looking forward to being a spectator at the Boat Club tournament which begins a week tomorrow . |